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Region comprising the westernmost states of the United States
Contemporary analyses find homicide rates at or near their lowest levels in the era of modern record-keeping, and several recent reports argue murders are at a “” or the lowest since the early 1900s ;...
The historical roots of racism in the United States rest on a convergence of early colonial labor systems, transatlantic slavery, legal codification of race, and the social invention of “whiteness” to...
Indigenous peoples across the American West both adopted and reshaped cattle herding from the 18th century onward, ranging from early Spanish-era vaquero instruction in the Southwest to large twentiet...
built a string of hospitality and service businesses in and — chiefly restaurants, hotels/boardinghouses and related enterprises that catered to miners and travelers — and historians view those ventur...
Women on the nineteenth‑century American frontier confronted a spectrum of including sexual assault shaped by expansionist dynamics, pervasive intimate‑partner abuse with uneven state intervention, an...